Shelby County eliminates constables’ salaries

Magistrates vote for change to take place in 2015

Shelby County Magistrates voted Tuesday to do something they had discussed for years: to eliminate as of 2015 the pay of the county’s seven constables.

Acting during their meeting at Stratton Center on a motion made by District 2 Magistrate Michael Riggs, chair of the court’s Sheriff/Coroner Committee, magistrates voted, 6-2, to approve the measure.

The court was considering salaries to be set for a 4-year period starting in 2015, and the decision about constables was something that had been discussed for several years.

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